Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-06-06

the waves under the keel of the why, they
only make the motion OF our little boat
the more delightful" But when the winds
swept down, and the sea was tossed into
wrath, then they found that following
Christ was
NOT SMOOTH SAILING.
50 you have found it; 80 | have found
1t. Did you ever notice the end of the
life OF tile apostles of Jesus Christ? You
wou say i ever men ought to have had Il
smooth HE, smooth departure, then
those men, the disciples # Jesus Christ,
ought TO have had such departure and
such a life.
st. James lost his head. St Philip was
hung to death on pillar. St Matthew
had his life dashed out with halhert. st.
Mark WAS dragged TO death through the
streets. St James the Less was beaten to
death with Il fuller's club. St. Thomas
was struck through with spear They
did not find following Christ smooth sail
ing. On, how they were all tossed in the
tempest John Huss in the fire; Hugh Me
Kali in I'll" hour of mart yrdOm; the Abb
genScS, The WaldcnseS, the Scotch Govern
sAii''iN N''l NilN' llilNA u NliltNlll NaillluAs
But WHY 20 TO history when | can come
into this audience to-day and find score
Of illustrations of the truth of this subject?
That yOnng mln in the store trying to serve
God, while his cmplowcr SCOTS At Chris
tianlty the young man in the same store
antagnnl,liC t0 the Christian religion, teas
in@ him, tormcnting him about his
religion, trying Ia get him
mad. They succeed in getting
him mad saying: "IOure Il pretty Chris
tian.' Does this young man find it
smooth sailing when he tries to follow
Christ? Here is a Christian girl. Her
father d,spiSeS the Christian religion; her
mother CcSpises the Christian religion; her
brothers and sisters scoil' at the Christian
religion; she can hardly find quiet place
in which to Say her prayers. Did she find
it smooth sailing when she tried To follow
Jesus Christ? OH no, all who wOuld live
the life Of the Christian religion must SUI
fer persecution; il you do not find II i'll one
way, yoI will get it in another way.
The question was asked: WHO are
those nearest the thrOne?' and the answer
came back: "rhcSe are they who came
up out u, great tribulation;--@rea failing,
~ the onginal has il, great laiIng, grra'
pounding had their robes washed
and made white in the blood OF the Lamb. "
Oh. do not be dishrartcnrd. Oh, child Of
God, take courage You are in glorious
cOmpuiOnship. God will see you through
all these trials and He will deliver You.
My subject also imprcsscs me with the
tact that good sometimes
GET VERY MuCH FRIGHTENED.
In the tones Of these disciples as they
rushed into the back part Of the boat, !
find they are frightened almost to death
They say. "MaStcr, c;reSt thou not that
we perish ~ They had no reason to he
frightened, for Christ was in the boat. |
suppose If we had been there We would
have been just rs much allrightcncd. Per
haps more.
In all ages very good people get very
much allrightencd. II is often 50 III our
day. and men sly: "Why look at the
bad lectures: look at the SpIritualistic so
rictes look ut the various errors going
over the Church Oi God; We
are going to founder; the
Church is going TO perish: she il
going down" oh, how many good pcO-
pie are aflrighlcncd hy imiquity in our
day, and think the church of Jesus Christ
is going 10 be ovcrthrOwn, aud are just a.
mqch ;'tr,%4tteIled as were disciples OF my
imiquity were going to triumph over right
cOUsneSs.
4 lion goes into Il cavern to sleep. lie
lies down, with his shaggy name covering
the paws Meanwhile the spiders spin a
web across the mouth OF the cavern, and
say 1--WE have captured him. GOssamer
thread after gossamer thread is spun, until
the whole front of the cavern is covered
with the spiders web, and the spiders say:
The lion is done the lion is fast" After
while the lion has got through sleeping;
he rousCS himself, he shakes his name, he
walks out into the sunlight; he does not
even know the spiders web is spun, and
with his voice he shakes the mountain.
So men come
Spinning THEIR SurHISrRIES
and skepticism about Jesus Christ; He
seems TO he sleeping. They say: 1--WE have
captured the Lord; he will never come
forth again upon the nation; Christ is cap
turcd forever. His religion will never
make any conquest among men But al
ter while the Lion of the Tribe of Judah
will rouse Himsclfand come forth TO shake
nightly the nations. What's 4 spiders
web to the aroused lion? Give truth and
error a fair grapplc and truth will come of
victor.
But there are n great many good people
who get ailrightcned in other respects;
they are aiirightcned in our day about re-
vivals. They say: 'Oh! this is a strong
religious gale; we are afraid the Church of
God is going to be upset, ANA there are go
ns to he 4 great many people brought
into the church that are going
to he of no use TO it," and
they are alrghtrncd whenever
they see a revival taking hold OF the
churches.
As though a ship captain with five thou
sand bushels Of wheat Tor cargo should
say, some day, coming upon deck: Throw
overheard all cargo and the sailors
should say: "Why, captain, what do yOn
mean? Thhw escrhoard all the cargo
"Oh, " says the captain, I'VE have peck
of chat that has got into this five thou
sand bushels of wheat. and the only way
TO ret lid of the chan is to throw all the
wheat overheard " Now, that is n great
deal wiser than the talk of great many
Christians who want 10 throw overheard
all the thousands and tens of thousands oi
souls who are the subjects of rcyivaIs.
Throw all overheard because they are
brought into the kingdom of God through
prrat rcyivalS. because there is a peek Of
chat, quart of chan, pint of chalf! !
say, let them stay until tn" last day; th"
Lord will divide the clail from the wheat.
DO not bcatraid Ot Il great revival.
oh, that these
GALES TI;uM HEAVEN
might sweep through all our churches!
Oh, for such days Us Richard l;iNtcr saw
in England and Robert McCheyne
saw in Dundee! oh, for such days
rs Jonathan Edwards saw in North
ampton. | have often heard my father
tell of the fact that in the early
part of this century revival broke out at
Somerville, y. j., aud some people were
very much agitatcl about it. They sad:
"Oh, you are going TO bring too many
people into the church at once and they
sent down TO New Brunswick to get John
Livingston to stop the revival.
Well, there was no better soul III all
the world than John Livingston. lie